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SOCCER / J. League
Sep 12, 2001

JFA confirms dates of Emperor's Cup

This year's Emperor's Cup knockout soccer tournament will kick off on Nov. 25, the Japan Football Association announced Monday.
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Sep 12, 2001

Power and purity both old and new

The colorful ceramic culture of Kyoto meets the darker, subdued world of Karatsu potter Jinenbo Nakagawa this week at the Tachikichi department store in Kyoto.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2001

Epic journey across ice set to break world record

A 57-year-old adventurer from Tokyo hopes to complete a 22,000-km trek by dog sled across the Arctic from central Siberia to eastern Greenland in July, more than five years after setting out on the journey.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 12, 2001

You ain't nuthin' but a henjin

What a wacky guy Junichiro Koizumi is. When he's not battling bureaucracy or trying to revive the ailing economy, Japan's unprecedentedly popular prime minister likes nothing better than to chill out and listen to the music of the King: Elvis Presley.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2001

Memorial erected for downed B-29 crew

INA, Ibaraki Pref. -- Before dawn on March 10, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber crashed into the woods outside a rural village some 45 km northeast of Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2001

Patent confab kicks off in Tokyo

A meeting of patent office chiefs from 12 Asian countries started today in Tokyo, the Patent Office said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Old before their time

From the mummies of ancient Egypt to the philosophers' search for the legendary Fountain of Youth to modern-day cryogenics, humankind has always longed for eternal life and everlasting youth. But has our fear of aging gone too far?
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2001

More students to be offered taste of diplomatic life

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MORE SPORTS
Sep 9, 2001

Hirano to retire after season

Freestyle swimmer Masato Hirano, who holds the men's 1,500-meter national record, will retire after the current swimming season, Japanese swimming officials said Friday. Hirano, 26, has been the top Japanese long-distance swimmer, winning the national 1,500-meter title seven times while finishing sixth...
JAPAN / WEEKEND WISDOM
Sep 9, 2001

Takarazuka chief pins group's success on Japan's decline

The success of the extravagant, all-woman Takarazuka theatrical troupe over the past decade owes a great deal to Japan's economic decline since the bubble economy of the late 1980s burst, according to Shinji Ueda, president of the Takarazuka Revue Co.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Vanity thy name is also man

If my mates could see me now, they'd just about die laughing.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 9, 2001

A long-term relationship that works

PARTNERSHIP: The United States and Japan 1951-2001, edited by Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001, 333 pp., 3,800 yen (cloth). On Sept. 8, 1951, Japan and the United States, along with 47 other governments, signed a peace treaty that officially ended the Pacific...
COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2001

Still healthy, after all these years

FUKUOKA -- Passing your twilight years in Japan used to entail long days of contemplation and an austere diet of tofu. Sound dull? The good news is that doctors these days recommend an active social life for a happy, healthy old age. The bad news is, according to medical practitioner Magoe Ando, you'll...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 9, 2001

This is the season of our national discontent

Last week's edition of Aera (Sept. 3) looked at the current "Age of Discontent," while Bungei Shunju published a special issue in August on ways to find happiness. Both themes currently feature on the shelves of Japanese bookstores as well.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 9, 2001

Making space to swing a cat in a rabbit hutch

Blame for the consumer spending slump is usually pinned on widespread anxiety over an uncertain future. But another reason, one that isn't discussed as much, is that most citizens already have everything they want.
LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND
Sep 9, 2001

Home is where the harvest is

If you yearn to glimpse a vineyard in autumn, consider visiting one in Japan. In several prefectures, quality-minded vintners are exploring the grape varietals, cultivation techniques and microclimates needed to produce first-class wines.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 8, 2001

Martial arts in Roppongi? Meet the Karate Bros.

Some interviews are straightforward and others are not. And some are just plain funky. I believe I'm meeting two brothers. In fact I meet an extended martial arts family, all of whom have something to say. It's more like chairing a meeting -- or a succession of meetings.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2001

Japanese, Chinese towel firms link to fight import curbs

A group of 10 Japanese towel makers with production bases in China said Friday it has linked up with a Chinese group of textile traders in an effort to prevent Japan from slapping a restriction on towel imports from China.
SOCCER / World cup
Sep 7, 2001

Japan's soocer team to play more friendlies

Japan will play friendlies against Senegal on Oct. 4 in Lens, France, and Nigeria on Oct. 7 in Southampton, England, in preparation for next year's World Cup, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Sep 7, 2001

Pedaling along the Silk Road

Justin Jeffrey and his wife, Miyuki, have set off on a journey of epic proportions. On bicycles laden with camping equipment and summer and winter clothes, they are traveling overland from Sapporo to London. Their journey is taking them through some of the most spectacular and challenging terrain in...
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2001

Lens maker shines brightly in economic gloom

When Yasuo Ikuta saw the light focused by his unique lens erupt in a streak of smoke on a paved road about a decade ago, he was stunned by its potential.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 6, 2001

Kofu upsets Omiya Ardija 2-1

SAITAMA -- J. League Division Two cellar dweller Ventforet Kofu stunned Division One hopeful Omiya Ardija 2-1 at Omiya Soccer Stadium on Wednesday night.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Consumers divided over towel curbs

Consumers are evenly divided over whether to slap emergency curbs on towel imports from China and Vietnam, according to a government opinion poll released Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2001

Koizumi's son to promote light 'happoshu'

Suntory Ltd. on Oct. 10 will launch a new "happoshu" -- a low-malt, beer-like alcoholic beverage -- that has about half of the calories of its other happoshu products.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 5, 2001

Close and personal

An exhibition of photographs by Miyako Ishiuchi is on show until Nov. 24 at Gallery Deux in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, showing the nails, hands, fingers and feet of men of various nationalities, ages and occupations.
CULTURE / Music / J-POPSICLE
Sep 5, 2001

Welcome to the 'real' world

"Utada Unplugged" -- it has a nice ring to it. Hikaru Utada is the latest artist to get the MTV Unplugged treatment, and this correspondent was one of a small group of media folk invited to the taping of the diminutive diva's MTV Japan "Unplugged" special.

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Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.
As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows